Refugium for breeding

[PokerG]

Are there any species that can be breed purely from moving them from the main tank into a well established refugium?

My guess is no, bangai's might come close if your refugium has enough pods of the right size and you dont try to raise too many.

The refugium can be plumbed so you can issolate it when it is being used as a hatchery/grow out tank or not depending on whether this may help and then maybe replumbed for water changes (assuming your main tank can cope with the copious amounts of wastes.

Anyone tried anything similar?

I basically want something that is -stupidly- easy to breed that doesn't require me to keep a food culture going. We can't buy BBS over here (England) so this is my next solution. If you can think of anything else as an alternative then let me know, willing to spend a bit of money but space and time are the premiums.

It doesn't have to be fish, I will happily do shrimps.

Gary

 

[CaptiveMarine]

I haven't tried it, but I'm sure that Mandarin fish (either Synchiropus splendidus or Synchiropus picturatus) would love the extra pods, and it might get them in the breeding mood. I don't know it there would be anything in there that the larva could eat though.

 

[Luis A M]

Re: Refugium for breeding

We can't buy BBS over here (England) so this is my next solution. [/B]

DonÃ"šÃ‚´t tell us you canÃ"šÃ‚´t buy bs eggs in UK:eek2:

 

[NicoleC]

Here ya' go:
http://www.aquatics-online.co.uk/searchresults.asp?a=s&s=brine+shrimp

Or Brine Shrimp Direct ships to the UK.

 

[PokerG]

Ok, let me rephrase the question, whatcan I raise on just newly hatched BBS then

 

[jnowell]

Look at SPK's thread on Bangaiis, he raised them in his refugium with newly hatched brine shrimp, they are doing fine (he did this all in England, so no geographical barriers

 

[PokerG]

I know about steve's work, seen the babies in the flesh.